Some forms of relation with language and knowledge do not build intelligence, but a kind of rabidly self-interested ramified structure that parades around in human minds and cultures demanding fealty. A monster, really, who insists that reality must constrain itself to the monster’s likeness, or be attacked until it does. Most of us have something very like this as the basis of our own minds. We nearly all suffer it as the basis of our cultures. Since we can now detect this, perhaps we may begin to resolve it. Before it resolves us.